Motivational Quotes

Planning

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

- Milne, A. A.

Best Quotes about Planning

It's never too late to start planning for the future.

A first-rate Organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.

Bennett, Arnold

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Hugo, Victor

It's not the plan that is important, it's the planning.

Edwards, Graeme

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Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression.

Harvey-Jones, John

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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

Landry, Tom

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What do you want to achieve or avoid? The answers to this question are objectives. How will you go about achieving your desire results? The answer to this you can call strategy.

Rothschild, William E.

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A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.

George S. Patton

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For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.

Henry, Patrick

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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

Howard, Vernon

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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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An intelligent plan is the first step to success. The man who plans knows where he is going, knows what progress he is making and has a pretty good idea when he will arrive.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Plan your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power.

Meyer, Paul J.

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In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.

Coudert, Jo

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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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The structure will automatically provide the pattern for the action which follows.

Curtis, Donald

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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage

Ziglar, Zig

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He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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A trend is a trend is a trend. But the question is, will it bend? Will it alter its course through some unforeseen force and come to a premature end?

Cairncross, Alec

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First you write down your goal; your second job is to break down your goal into a series of steps, beginning with steps which are absurdly easy.

Dodson, Fitzhugh

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Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.

Nightingale, Earl

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Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

Euripides

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We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

Joseph Campbell

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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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With a definite, step-by-step plan -- ah, what a difference it makes! You cannot fail, because each step carries you along to the next, like a track

Reed, Scott

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One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

Trotsky, Leon

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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.

Victor Hugo

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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.

Judd, H. Stanley

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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints.

Hill, Napoleon